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1、今晚Tonight.爱迪生认为他有当时最有创意的头脑Edison thought he was the best inventive brain around.他自学成才非常好胜痴迷专注He was self-taughvery competitive,maniacally focused.他是个颇有争议的人物But he was a colorful character.脚踏实地有幽默感Down to earth,he had a sense of humor.爰迪生一手创造了发明家的形象Edison single-handedly created the image of an inven

2、tor.爰迪生今晚的美国印象节目Edison/ tonight on American Experience.起飞计时开始Lift-ofthe clock is running.我们在这里有大量伤亡We have mass casualties up here.我们去过的地方 我们在哪里 我们要去哪里美国印象美国印象的赞助资金由Exclusive corporate funding for American Experience以下机构提供is provided by:也可以通过以下方式Experience is also made possible by:您可以向PBS电视台捐款And by

3、 contributions to your PBS station from:对于你的喜爰谢谢你(发动机喷射)(engine sputtering)爰迪生1922年10月中旬一个摄制组来到In mid-0ctober,1922,a film crew arrived新泽西州小镇西橙in the small town of West 0range,New Jersey,拍摄世界上最负盛名的一个人to spend some time with one of the most famous men in the world:惊人多产的美国发明家爰迪生the phenomenally prolifi

4、c American inventor Thomas Edison.数天时间里Over the course of a few days, 摄影机捕获镜头伟人在工作 the cameras captured the great man at work,与员工聊天chatting with employees在实验室进行实验and conducting experiments in his lab, 监督工厂包装材料测试overseeing tests of packing materials in his factories并赶超他最知名设备上的最新进展and catching up on t

5、he latest advances in the device for which he was best known. 爱迪生发明的东西The things that Edison invented 在我们社会中无所不在are so omnipresent in our society.触及数以百万计的人们Theyve touched the lives of millions and millions of people并完全改变了他们and totally changed them.我们生活在一个爰迪生发明的世界We live in a world that Edison invent

6、ed.电灯录音电影Incandescent lighsound recording,motion pictures.这些和其它大量发明For these and scores of other inventions, 使爰迪生恰当地赢得“时代发明家”的声誉Edison had justly earned acclaim as the Inventor of the Age. 这是第一盏电灯的复♥制♥品This is a replica of the first lamp.但机器无法解释他从发明家到偶像的转变But no mere machine could acco

7、unt for his metamorphosis from inventor to icon. (汽笛)(whistling loudly)(隆隆声)(chugging)我们认为今天变化非常非常快We think we are moving very,very fast today.我告诉你爱迪生时代曼哈顿那些人Let me tell you,all those folks in Manhattan as Thomas Edison is walking the streets 认为身体承受不了当时快速变化的震荡thought their bodies couldnt stand the s

8、hock of how fast they were moving.处在美国快速进入现代世界的起点Poised at the starting line of Americas rush into the modern world,爱迪生成为旗手Edison became its standard bearer.喂喂Hello,hello,hello!他的时代他自我推销的精明诀窍The impact of his native genius made infinitely more powerful他的极度求胜欲by his timing,his canny knack for self-pr

9、omotion让他的天才无限强大and his compulsive need to win.爱迪生非常好胜Edison was very competitive.越多的人在寻找答案The more people who tried to find the answer,他就越会被它诱惑the more tempting it was for him to take it on.他极度关注维持控制He was maniacally focused on maintaining control.爰迪生的驱动力最终In the end,the intensity of Edisons drive证

10、明既是祝福又是诅咒proved both blessing and curse,赔了终身朋友的忠诚costing him the allegiance of a lifelong friend赔了他创建企业的控制权and control of the industry to which hed given life,即使它也保证了他的不朽even as it guaranteed him a kind of immortality.有其他伟大的发明家There were other great inventors.还有爰迪生Then there was Edison.他知道发明不只是有个想法H

11、e understood that inventing is not just having an idea,他使“爰迪生”成为不可忽视的名字and so he made Edison a name to be reckoned with.(鸟鸣)(birds cawing)1876年晚冬In the late winter of 1876,新泽西州门洛帕克市散居的市民the scattered residents of Menlo Park,New Jersey,看着一个奇怪的新建筑eyed a curious new building从火车站边山丘修起来just up the hill f

12、rom the train station.很容易被误认是所学校It could easily have been mistaken for a school或贵格会会堂or a Quaker meeting house.事实上这是实验室一个5000平方英尺的设施In facit was a laboratory,a 5,000-square-foot facility完全致力于孕育一个人的想法entirely dedicated to nurturing the ideas of one man,一个崭露头角的企业家an up-and-coming entrepreneur名字叫托马斯阿尔瓦

13、爰迪生by the name of Thomas Alva Edison.没有国内私人实验室设施如此精良No private laboratory in the country was so well equipped.从装满各种化学和有机材料的罐子From the apothecary jars filled with all manner of chemicals and organic materials 到科学仪器和工具to the scientific instruments and shop tools,爱迪生拥有可能需要的一切东西Edison had everything he

14、could possibly need使自然界向他的意志屈服to make the natural world bend to his will.他有这种需要不同资源LISA GITELHe had this keen sense去完成发明的敏锐感觉that he needed different kinds of resources in order to invent,所以门洛帕克成为一个白板So Menlo Parker became a whiteboard,产生的发明点子全部出自于他and all the invention ideas he came up with came fr

15、om him历史上成功的发明家Successful inventors in history, 大都是试图完成一项任务 were largely people trying to accomplish a task.他们有日常工作They had a day job effectively,而发明是额外途径and invention was a way of furthering that.爰迪生决定发明是他的日常工作Edison decided that invention was his day job.29岁时爱迪生是个有雄心的人At 29,Edison had the audacious ambition白手起家并具备实力来证明of a man whod come from nothing and who had everything to prove.(胶片卷轴点击)(film reel clicking)(音乐播放)(music playing)他是